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Loss of the "control tower," as the Japanese press has nicknamed Ozawa, would be a sharp blow for the coalition and for Hosokawa, who depends heavily on Ozawa's intimate knowledge of political hardball in the Diet and elsewhere. "Every pot has its perfectly matched lid," says Tomoaki Iwai, a politics professor at Tokiwa University. "It is heaven's dispensation. They are one system...
...test and two papers due next week, keeping him inside the ivory tower for the long weekend. "I plan of catching up on a lot of work," Lee said...
Last summer I showed him pictures of a trip to London, a city he had once visited on military duty when he was my age. He nodded at just about everything I showed him, remembering old back cabs, the alter of St. Paul's, the Tower Bridge. He stopped, though, over a picture of a ceiling--the arches of the Chapter House in Westminster Abbey. He tapped it and said quietly, "They knew how to do it then, didn't they...
Even as the lawyers fretted over the child's heir rights, the tabloid tom- toms spread the word that the infant's moniker was a belated art-of-the- deal tribute to real estate air rights. The eponymous Trump Tower was built in 1983 with the help of that patch of Manhattan sky owned by Tiffany & Co. How much more tasteful had the parents simply explained that Tiffany rhymes with epiphany...
...story of what happened that Wednesday night, as told by the woman who was with Gilland and corroborated by police reports, demonstrates just how graphically urban violence can sometimes invade Harvard's ivory tower...